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IDW Publishing had an amazing 2025 with its critically acclaimed line of Star Trek comic books, with its most recent new series, Star Trek: The Last Starship, going through its first printing almost immediately, and sales surprisingly have been going UP as the series has gone on, which is a major shocker that goes against almost all industry trends.
Now, in an exclusive reveal to CBR, IDW is revealing its plans for 2026 for its Star Trek comics book line to help celebrate the 60th anniversary of Star Trek, including a 60th Anniversary Special!
What is IDW doing to celebrate Star Trek's anniversary?
Image via IDWIDW can announce that it will be doing a brand-new Star Trek: 60th Anniversary Special that will feature what it refers to as "all-new tales from the creative minds behind everyone's favorite characters and captains!" They also shared the logo being used to celebrate 60 years of Star Trek.
The company is keeping the creative roster on the special a secret for now, but in its recent anniversary specials like 2022's Star Trek #400 and 2024's Star Trek #500, it has certainly lived up to the hype of those anniversaries, and THEN some! In fact, speaking of those specials, IDW will be releasing a deluxe edition of the 60th Anniversary Special that will also include those previous specials (Star Trek #400 and #500).
In addition, more importantly, IDW will be launching MULTIPLE brand-new Star Trek titles in 2026.
This will come in handy as we will see the endings in 2026 of two popular Star Trek miniseries, Star Trek: Voyager - Homecoming, which will reveal how Voyager finally returned to Earth, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Seeds of Salvation, where the Enterprise crew gets caught up in a wild roller coaster ride on a mysterious ice planet.
And, of course, Star Trek: Lower Decks will continue, and the hit new series, Star Trek: The Last Starship will continue in a big way in 2026. The series is designed to be read in three-issue "chapters," as co-writer Jackon Lanzing explained to CBR last year:
We structured this book in a way I am excited about for the cadence of new and old fans. Every three issues of Last Starship is a chapter. These are not six issue arcs or four issue arcs. These are three issue arcs, each a discrete part of the mission, and those missions will change. What Omega [EDITED TO ADD: Which is now revealed to be the new Enterprise!] is doing in the first three is not what Omega is doing in 4, 5, 6, which is not what Omega is doing in 7, 8, 9, which is not what Omega is doing in 10, 11, 12. The mission will fundamentally change every chapter, as will its context and time period. The crew will change, the world beyond them will change.
The stunning opening chapter ended in 2025, and so the second chapter will begin in 2026!
What does Star Trek editor Heather Antos have to say about IDW's 60th Anniversary plans for Star Trek?
Heather Antos, the Senior Group Editor in charge of the Star Trek line at IDW, said to CBR about this amazing anniversary for the iconic science fiction franchise, “Star Trek turning sixty is honestly surreal. This franchise has always been about hope, curiosity, and the radical belief that we can be better together, and getting to help celebrate and carry that legacy forward at IDW feels incredibly meaningful in these times.
Antos continued, "In 2026, our Star Trek comics aren’t just honoring what’s come before; they’re continuing the conversation — about empathy, exploration, and the future we’re still trying to build. Being part of that ongoing mission is a true privilege.”
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